english as a second language

Contains over 450 stories, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays for young children, each presented in English and Spanish; arranged by theme in nineteen categories, including animals, make believe, travel, and school days.

Outlines a five-part, research-based framework for helping English language learners achieve their full potential in the classroom, covering content reading strategies, higher-order thinking skills, assessment, total participation, and scaffolding.

Introduces basic vocabulary in labeled pictures of familiar objects arranged under such categories as "House, " "Clothing, " and "Animal Kingdom.".

Lists four thousand French words in such categories as the human body, work, leisure, and transportation, and presents usage tips and two hundred practice and review exercises.

Presents an illustrated guide to learning Japanese grammar and language structure using manga, and includes lessons on common colloquialisms, contractions, interjections, and other elements of everyday speech.

A collection of tips, games, mini-books, and activities designed to help ESL students in grades one through four improve their English vocabulary.

Explores the various practices for teaching older English learners, explaining which strategies work and which don't and offering tips for addressing the specific challenges older students face.

Presents writing lessons and exercises in English for foreign language speakers, covering vocabulary and grammar, natural-sounding sentences, and the writing of original stories, business and personal letters, and themes.

Presents eighteen lessons in English vocabulary for second-language learners, each with several exercises, covering such themes as the body, the household, family, clothing, food, jobs, time, and weather.

A guide to Spanish grammar for beginning and intermediate students of the language, featuring side-by-side comparisons of English and Spanish grammar topics, including parts of speech, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, prepositions, and verbs, and including exercises and an answer key.